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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping today shook hands and had a conversation on a "range of issues" during the BRICS leaders' informal meeting here amid a stand-off between the Armies of the two countries in the Sikkim section.

BJP, Left and Congress leaders were today stopped from going to Baduria in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district as the situation was volatile following communal clashes earlier this week, officials said.

Though the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha has refused to budge and has already announced that the indefinite bandh in the hills will continues, the West Bengal government today expressed hope about return of normalcy there before the festive season starts in the end of September.

President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday gave nod to an order pertaining to implementation of the Goods and Services Tax regime in Jammu and Kashmir, clearing decks for the state assembly for enacting a State GST law.

In a relief to consumers, the Union government has made it mandatory for manufacturing companies to print details like expiry date and net quantity on labels on all pre-packaged food in a "bigger font size".

Technology giant Microsoft is undertaking a major reorganisation in its sales and marketing units that will likely to see the company cutting about 4,000 jobs from its workforce, mostly outside the U.S..

The Indian Railways has replaced bulky, multi-lingual question booklets with online tests for its recruitment process, resulting in a green initiative that has helped saved four lakh trees and 319 crore paper sheets.

The country's forex reserves touched a new record-high of USD 386.539 billion after it rose by USD 4.007 billion in the week to June 30, due to an increase in foreign currency assets (FCAs), the RBI said.

The Union government wants to revive small savings as it is currently not as robust as it should be, Minister of State for Commerce & Industry, Nirmala Sitharaman said here on Friday. "Small savings is backbone of the economy.

State-owned Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) has registered a net profit of Rs 1,120 crore for the 2016-17 fiscal.
This was, however, Rs 57 crore less than the profit SIDBI had posted in the previous fiscal.

The finance ministry has asked all central ministries to ensure revised rates of allowances as per the 7th Central Pay Commission (CPC) are paid from the current month, a move that will benefit 48 lakh employees.

Education will not become expensive under Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime as schooling up to higher secondary and most of the services provided to educational institutions are exempt from taxation, the government said on Friday.